Vanguard Group
Based in PA
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AI Overview
With $18.8M in lobbying spend across 32 quarterly filings, Vanguard Group is one of the biggest lobbying spenders in Washington. Their lobbying covers 5 issue areas. Active from 2018 to 2025.
$18.8M
Total Spend
8
Years Active
1
Firms Hired
10
Lobbyists Deployed
5
Issues Lobbied
Spending Trend
View as table
| Year | Lobbying Spend |
|---|---|
| 2018 | $2.7M |
| 2019 | $2.5M |
| 2020 | $2.9M |
| 2021 | $2.1M |
| 2022 | $1.8M |
| 2023 | $2.1M |
| 2024 | $2.3M |
| 2025 | $2.3M |
Issues Lobbied
Lobbying Firms
Lobbyists
What They Lobby About
These are actual descriptions from their quarterly lobbying disclosure filings, summarizing what they lobbied Congress and federal agencies about.Issue areas: Financial, Taxation, Retirement, Budget/Appropriations, Homeland Security
- •Issues arising from Dodd-Frank regulations - including systemic risk regulation of non-bank financial institutions, FSOC process improvements, SIFI designations for non-bank financial institutions, an
- •General tax issues related to mutual funds
- •Issues related to tax incentives for retirement savings, including the potential for Roth mandates
- •Commodity related investments, savings
- •Capital gains and
- •Issues in support of providing for electronic delivery of ERISA mandated retirement information, including H.R. 4610, the RETIRE Act
- •Issues related to the Department of Labors proposed fiduciary stan
- •Issues related to reductions in the federal debt and federal budget deficit
- •Issues related to raising the debt ceiling and avoiding federal government default
- •Issues related to funding the federal gov
- •Cybersecurity Issues (e.g., information sharing abilities, data breach notifications, enforcement actions, NIST cybersecurity framework and related matters)
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Last updated: February 2026
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